Reply #54: If I had seen that post, this would have been my response [View All]

[w4rma]

If you want to get angry at someone, get angry at the SOBs in charge

Don't !@#$%ing take your anger out on the under-paid, over-worked soldiers, many of whom **HAVE BEEN GETTING KILLED AND MAIMED** since Bush and the Neo-Cons got their way. Take your anger out on the chickenhawk politicians and buisnessmen in charge.

Your attitude towards these folks in uniform is no better than Kissinger's attitude, IMHO:

“Military men are dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns for foreign policy,” Kissinger told Washington Post reporters Woodward and Bernstein (The Final Days, Simon & Schuster, 1976).

These folks signed up to PROTECT the U.S.A. The vast majority of them were not hired for their opinions on where they go or what they do to protect the 50 States and Puerto Rico. They were hired as pawns for our politicians but they SHOULD **NOT** EVER UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE BE TREATED AS PAWNS.

I support our troops!
Bring them home.
Give them raises.
Increase their benefits.
Protect them from “Depleted” Uranium.
Increase VA Services funding.

I do not support either this invasion or the White House squatter.

As for the soldiers having a choice to go or not to go. Stop-loss has been in effect since about the middle of 2002. Stop-Loss includes keeping soldiers past their ETS date. There is also something called Stop-Move that is also in effect for many U.S. soldiers.
http://www.usmc.mil/marinelink/mcn2000.nsf/stoploss
http://www.dtic.mil/armylink/news/Dec2001/a20011204stoploss12-3.html
http://www.af.mil/news/Jun2002/n20020621_1004.shtml